Is It a House?

Archaeological Excavations at English Camp, San Juan Island, Washington

Amanda K. Taylor, Julie K. Stein (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

182 Seiten

2012
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99147-4 (ISBN)

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Prehistoric houses on the Northwest Coast were built from wood, often within piles of discarded shells, leaving little archaeological evidence from which to confirm their presence. Is It a House? uses multiple lines of evidence to investigate whether the U-shaped depression surrounded by shells at the English Camp site on San Juan Island was originally a house constructed by native peoples. Each chapter addresses a different kind of evidence, including artifacts, sediment, faunal remains, and stratigraphy. The quantitative and qualitative analyses used to examine the evidence reveal new directions and insights for identifying houses in similar contexts. The editors introduce the research in the context of current and past Gulf of Georgia (Coast Salish) archaeology, and end by synthesizing the research evidence.

Amanda K. Taylor is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington. Julie K. Stein is professor of anthropology and executive director of the Burke Museum at the University of Washington. Other contributors include Cristie Boone, Kristine Bovy, Chin-yung Chao, Angela Close, Phoebe Daniels, J. Tyler Faith, Debra K. Green, Robert Kopperl, Mary Parr, Laura Phillips, Sarah Sherwood, and Catherine Foster West.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2012
Reihe/Serie	Is It a House?
Zusatzinfo	144 b&w illus. - 144 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	442 g
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-295-99147-X / 029599147X
ISBN-13	978-0-295-99147-4 / 9780295991474
Zustand	Neuware